If that should occur, I would venture over to SolusOS. I've been "playing" with the Live DVDs of Eveline and 2 A5 and am quite impressed. Both of them run very well on my main notebook and appear to be nicely setup with all the programmes that I regularly use. Ikey and his team have a big job ahead of them and seem to be up for it.

However, until version 2 is finalized, I'm staying with Mint 13 MATE (or moving to xfce when it is finally released). It would be heartbreaking to have Mint disappear. I've been using Mint for the past 5 +/- years. I guess I am green in colour, eh!

MALsPa wrote:And, I'll never go back to running only one distro. The way I figure it, I didn't like being tied down to only Windows, so why should I tie myself down to any one Linux distro?

It is further necessary there are several distros suitable... I mean, many distros are just bad and/or buggy, others have some intellectual and/or politics, even security, problems etc Actually, but it's just my personal view of course, there are not so many distros really usable as a stable and main system for working. A PC is a tool to have your work done, not a toy.

By the way, my box told me today: "I'm not a toy, I'm not a number, I'm a free Personal Computer and I'm here to help humans to do their works"... I hope I have translated well because it spoke in French.

K.I.S.S. ===> "Keep It Simple, Stupid""Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." (Leonardo da Vinci)"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." (Albert Einstein)

linuxviolin wrote:It is further necessary there are several distros suitable... I mean, many distros are just bad and/or buggy, others have some intellectual and/or politics, even security, problems etc Actually, but it's just my personal view of course, there are not so many distros really usable as a stable and main system for working. A PC is a tool to have your work done, not a toy.

There might be a lot of distros that are usable "for working." It depends on what work you're trying to do, I guess.

And, for lots of people, a computer is a toy as well as a tool. Ever notice that most distros include games and multimedia apps?

When Solus 2 is final I will have that dualbooted with Mate. So no problem. Seems they will either have the Ubuntu or Debian installer, so it will not be necessary to waste time with complicated partition tools.

Xubuntu, Fedora, and Mint are the three distros I always switch between. Without Mint it would just be Fedora and Xubuntu, but I don't think I would mind. Functionally Mint with MATE isn't too different from Xubuntu.

I like Xfce, LXDE, and MATE. Any distro that offers a good selection of software and a reasonable implementation of any of the three DEs would be fine for me. I can use KDE and Cinnamon as well but I am not a huge fan. I hate GNOME 3 and Unity with a passion.